Cllong75
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- Aug 4, 2005
I have been inspired….. In reading a couple of very entertaining trip reports/pre trip reports, I have decided to start my own pre-trip report. I love the DIS and the amount of information that people share. Initially I thought against writing this as I figured no one would read it, but then I thought who cares. Of course I hope people read it, but even if they don’t, it will be great for the kids and I in a few years.
You will notice that I don’t have many posts under my name as I am more of a lurker than I am a poster.
About 10 years ago, my mom decided to take my two nieces who were 4 & 6 at the time to Disneyworld and she asked me to come along. Since then, this has become a tradition to take each of the grandkids, and now its time to take the 2 youngest.
Anyhow this trip will include….
Me, my name is Christy, I am 35 years old and I swear I would live at Disneyworld if it were at all possible. I am a Human Resources Manager for Embassy Suites Hotel and I am engaged to the most wonderful man in the world, Richie. We unfortunately do not have children, so we spoil our nieces and nephews rotten and then send them home. I love to travel, spend time with family & friends, spend time on the lake, play volleyball & softball, and I love to read. (on the right)
My mom, Linda who by all legal rights is 55; however she doesn’t look her age and is often confused as my sister instead of my mother. I definitely got my love for Disney and kid at heart mentality from her.
Next up is my nephew Tate, who is 6 years old and he is the funniest kid ever. He never ceases to amaze me with the stuff that comes out of his mouth.
Finally is my niece Ashlin. She will turn 5 just before we go, and although she knows we are celebrating her birthday at Disney, she has no idea what that means. Ash has never met a stranger and will talk to anybody and everybody who will pay attention to her so I’m sure standing in lines with her should be interesting.
Tate & Ashlin both went to Disney with us during a whole family trip in 2005, but at the time Tate was 20 months and Ash was only 3 weeks old, so for all intensive purposes this is their first trip.
We will be visiting our Disney home September 11th – September 18th. This is my 8th visit to Disney, and I have determined that this will be a year of firsts. We are going to try at least one thing in each park that we have for one reason or another never done. This will start before we even leave Des Moines , because this is the first time we will ever take a direct flight which I am super excited about, and this is also the first time we are not going to be at the airport at 5:00 am which I am also quite excited about.
This trip has been a long time coming for us. 2 ½ years ago, my mom told Ashlin that if she stopped wearing pull ups and would wear big girl pants, she would take her to Disneyworld, well the powers of Mickey being what they are, Ash went home that night, refused to put her pull up on has not worn one since. 2 weeks later, she had her first accident and the poor child was traumatized and called Grandma to make sure she could still go, poor thing.
The plan was to go in September of 2008, but unfortunately Richie (my fiancé) ended up having to have open heart surgery to correct a defect he was born with so our finances did not allow for any kind of trip. Then we were going to go last year in May and my mom and Richie were starting a new phase at their job (yes my mom is my fiancé’s bossJ) and couldn’t get away. It looked like this year wasn’t going to work either as my brother and sister-in-law weren’t going to be able to go this year. Well in February, my mom called and said we were going anyway and just taking the two little ones as she has been promising them for 2 years. So unfortunately, it’s not a whole family trip again, but we get to go none the less.
You will notice that I don’t have many posts under my name as I am more of a lurker than I am a poster.
About 10 years ago, my mom decided to take my two nieces who were 4 & 6 at the time to Disneyworld and she asked me to come along. Since then, this has become a tradition to take each of the grandkids, and now its time to take the 2 youngest.
Anyhow this trip will include….
Me, my name is Christy, I am 35 years old and I swear I would live at Disneyworld if it were at all possible. I am a Human Resources Manager for Embassy Suites Hotel and I am engaged to the most wonderful man in the world, Richie. We unfortunately do not have children, so we spoil our nieces and nephews rotten and then send them home. I love to travel, spend time with family & friends, spend time on the lake, play volleyball & softball, and I love to read. (on the right)
My mom, Linda who by all legal rights is 55; however she doesn’t look her age and is often confused as my sister instead of my mother. I definitely got my love for Disney and kid at heart mentality from her.
Next up is my nephew Tate, who is 6 years old and he is the funniest kid ever. He never ceases to amaze me with the stuff that comes out of his mouth.
Finally is my niece Ashlin. She will turn 5 just before we go, and although she knows we are celebrating her birthday at Disney, she has no idea what that means. Ash has never met a stranger and will talk to anybody and everybody who will pay attention to her so I’m sure standing in lines with her should be interesting.
Tate & Ashlin both went to Disney with us during a whole family trip in 2005, but at the time Tate was 20 months and Ash was only 3 weeks old, so for all intensive purposes this is their first trip.
We will be visiting our Disney home September 11th – September 18th. This is my 8th visit to Disney, and I have determined that this will be a year of firsts. We are going to try at least one thing in each park that we have for one reason or another never done. This will start before we even leave Des Moines , because this is the first time we will ever take a direct flight which I am super excited about, and this is also the first time we are not going to be at the airport at 5:00 am which I am also quite excited about.
This trip has been a long time coming for us. 2 ½ years ago, my mom told Ashlin that if she stopped wearing pull ups and would wear big girl pants, she would take her to Disneyworld, well the powers of Mickey being what they are, Ash went home that night, refused to put her pull up on has not worn one since. 2 weeks later, she had her first accident and the poor child was traumatized and called Grandma to make sure she could still go, poor thing.
The plan was to go in September of 2008, but unfortunately Richie (my fiancé) ended up having to have open heart surgery to correct a defect he was born with so our finances did not allow for any kind of trip. Then we were going to go last year in May and my mom and Richie were starting a new phase at their job (yes my mom is my fiancé’s bossJ) and couldn’t get away. It looked like this year wasn’t going to work either as my brother and sister-in-law weren’t going to be able to go this year. Well in February, my mom called and said we were going anyway and just taking the two little ones as she has been promising them for 2 years. So unfortunately, it’s not a whole family trip again, but we get to go none the less.